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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Undone
Breathing
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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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Fiction writing is a strange business when you think about it. You sit down and weave a network of lies to explore deeper truths.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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